Voting Restrictions:
· Poll taxes and literacy tests were used to prevent freedmen from voting.
· In order to help poor, illiterate whites to vote, a grandfather clause was passed. This stated that if a voter’s father or grandfather was eligible to vote on January 1, 1867, they did not have to take a literacy test. This allowed whites to vote, but not freedmen.
Jim Crow Laws – laws passed by southerners to segregate public places, such as schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, hospitals, water fountains, and cemeteries.
Plessy v. Ferguson – The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities were “separate but equal”.
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